Sunday, May 12
Daily News Stuff 12 May 2024
Singing Horses Edition
Never get into an argument with a man who buys shampoo by the barrel.
My single favourite song from Hololive, and they've recorded a lot of songs. The English branch by itself has something like 400 entries on the playlist.
Amazing that this came out of the mouth of a rat who even speaks Japanese with a thick Australian accent.
Disclaimer: A lot of things can happen in a year. The king might die. I might die. And maybe the rat will learn to sing.
Singing Horses Edition
Top Story
- If you have an Asus anything, better hope it doesn't need to be repaired. (Tom's Hardware)
There's a video at the end of the post providing background, but among other scams, Asus wanted around $2700 to replace just the power connector on an RTX 4090 - a well-documented problem with these cards - and $200 for a literally microscopic scratch on an Ally Z1 gaming device.
In that case the device was sent in to repair a broken joystick, and not only did Asus not offer to repair the joystick, they threatened to send the device back disassembled if the customer didn't cough up.
This didn't go down too well because the customer in question was a hardware review channel with more than two million subscribers.
- My new laptop is an Asus.
Tech News
- Swiss company Climeworks unveiled its new "Mammoth" plant in Iceland, which... Is basically a tree, only large, noisy, ugly, and expensive. (CNN)
So it's a plant that does what a plant does, except worse in every possible way.
- ARM desktop PCs are definitely coming, says ARM. (Tom's Hardware)
Uh huh.
- The Incredible KIMplement is a KIM-1 emulator... That runs on a Commodore 64. (OldVCR)
It's a fully virtualised 6502 running on a 6502.
This is like constructing a replica 1950s washing machine where every component is itself a 1950s washing machine.
If that doesn't make much sense, then yes.
- Gaze upon Dell's leaked Qualcomm X-Elite powered laptops. (The Verge)
Gaze, you filthy peasants. Gaze.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT announcement: What we know so far. (Tech Crunch)
Pixy's Law of Headlines: When a headline includes the phrase "what we know so far", the writer knows nothing whatsoever.
- I'm not saying SpaceX, but SpaceX: NASA wants a cheaper Mars sample return proposal. (Ars Technica)
Boeing presented the most expensive option.
Asus RMA Fail Video of the Day
Never get into an argument with a man who buys shampoo by the barrel.
Vtuber Music Video of the Day
My single favourite song from Hololive, and they've recorded a lot of songs. The English branch by itself has something like 400 entries on the playlist.
Amazing that this came out of the mouth of a rat who even speaks Japanese with a thick Australian accent.
Disclaimer: A lot of things can happen in a year. The king might die. I might die. And maybe the rat will learn to sing.
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